#strange ramblings

[strangesickness]

thinking about maggie and went really awkwardly trying to let richie know they'd support him if he was gay without letting him know they basically are 100% sure he is gay... but they're really bad at it and it just ends with richie really confused about their taste in entertainment

richie is like. dead from finals at university and he's coming home from the summer and he's real excited to see his parents and he gets off the bus or train or whatever and went's like. "it's so good to see you son. also did you hear ellen is a lesbian? isn't that great!" and richie's just like?????? "yes dad thats. thats nice? its good to see you too?"

a year or so later he comes home and he's just trying to settle in and maggie's like "richie! come here, i think you'll really like this music!" and he comes into the living room and maggie is playing judas priest on her CD player and she's like "i think you'd really like them, they're called judas priest" and richie's like. "mom. mom are you okay? i introduced you to judas priest. remember? i made you buy me a new CD because you stole mine... DADDDD mags is acting weird." and maggie's just like. "rich, richie, did you hear? their lead singer is gay, isn't that cool?" and richie's just like.... "um. yes?"

went keeps trying to like. collect a list of lgbtq historical figures and he'll randomly pop into richie's room with "did you know oscar wilde was gay?" and richie's like. where in the world are you getting this information???

more later my assignments are NOT completing themselves

#posts afflicted with a strange sickness #it stephen king #it 2019 #it 2017 #richie tozier #wentworth tozier #maggie tozier #strange ramblings

[strangelystillhere]

everyone on my dash making it seem as tho dungeon meshi farcille isn’t explicit and it’s mainly subtext only for me to be FLASHBANGED by the scene IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THE RESURRECTION? I’M SORRY???

#strange ramblings

[meltedicescream]

the ramblings of a madman thinking about designs

dottores design confuses me and I want you all to see my thoughts

#genshin impact #genshin dottore #il dottore #dottore #character design #what the fuck is this design #his outfit confuses me #fatui harbingers #genshin fatui #strange ramblings #lokis thoughts

[strangefingers]

i’ll be logging out of tumblr for awhile. sorry for anything i miss!

#strange ramblings

[goldensunset]

did you know? if you do your laundry you can get your clothes back

#fascinating stuff. let’s see if i (person with the worst executive dysfunction when it comes to doing laundry) remember it #i literally have this issue where i’ll let dirty clothes pile up in the laundry basket for an entire month #like it takes me that long to get around to it #and then- who would’ve thought- i find that i don’t have anything good to wear. strange! #finally did it last night and i’m like ohhh that was so difficult but the payoff finally #augh #peach rambles #hall of fame i guess #shut up about socks. idc. #this was a fun positivity post of sorts it’s about overcoming executive dysfunction #derailing into jokes about losing socks is. it’s not horrible but just boring and annoying #it was supposed to be celebration!! and encouragement!!!

[wu-does-art]

thinking about Nico adjusting to letting himself miss and long for the people he loves. based on these bits from the sun and the star:

" As Nico and Will followed the trogs, he thought about how much he missed Hazel. He was learning to make peace with that feeling. It was okay for him to miss people because that meant he wanted them around in his life. That idea was *very* new for him- he was used to either pushing people away or watching them recoil from his presence." *

" That was the most surreal thing of all... Was he happy? Nico wasn't very familiar with the sensation, but he couldn't deny that he felt wonderful in Will's presence. He even longed for the son of Apollo when they were apart. A funny thing had happened as the two grew closer: Nico suddenly understood all those cheesy, sappy love songs he'd always hated."

#its just. i like that they included that in the book yk. the fact that he prepared a certain distance between everyone #and thus isnt used to missing anyone #so its strange for him #this is probably set somewhere pre tsats just because i like to think it was one of the times he found himself missing and longing. #but it was one of the first times he actually allowed himself to feel that way. #took the feeling and held it instead of banishing it away #also yes letting himself unmask a bit #i like to think he just gets wayyy more expressive with his hands the more he heals #that and he unmasks more!!! more openly stimming!! more special interest rambles!! #just oughh. #anyways this was a huge comic to colour #big fuck you to tumblr who made posting soooo much harder #fuck u and ur updates tumblr #solangelo #pjo #percy jackson and the olympians #percy jackon and the olympians #nico di angelo #will solace #the sun and the star #trials of apollo #they borrow clothes from eachother its real in my head okay #nico canonally bought will a stupid shirt as a joke tho and i love that for them

[bluerosefox]

One in the Same

Hmmmm

Hmmmmm

So we know during the time Tim lost in spleen (his Red Robin run) and wakes ups next to the pit he almost believed he had been tossed in the Lazarus Pits.

What if

Now hear me out.

What if he actually was.

But what if instead of gaining Pit Madness, he unlocked his past life memories.

His memories of being Daniel 'Danny' Fenton and Danny Phantom.

And once the memories returned so did his ghost form and powers.

And as Tim sits at the bottom of the pits, crossing his legs and letting all his memories slide back into place he questioned what to do now. He pondered for a moment and hummed tapping a finger to his chin.

Maybe he'll play the Pit Madness card? After all Ra's chucked him in here to either turn him into a mindless rage machine he could manipulate or see what the Pits would do to a mind like Tim's. Or Tim could pretend to be a silent rage, a calm before the storm.

Well, Tim grinned his eyes glowing green as he stared at the surface of the Lazarus waters above him, he was very good at lying this life time around. After all he was Tim 'I can even lie to Batman and get away with it' Drake-Wayne and he did used to be Danny 'Commit to the bit' Fenton/Phantom.

He was going to have fun playing that fruitloop named Ra's like the cheap kazoo he was.

#danny phantom #danny fenton #crossover #dp x dc #blue rambles #danny phantom dc #writing ideas #random idea #dpxdc #tim drake #Danny is reborn as Tim Drake #the Pits instead of giving him Pit Madness unlocked his memories #Danny/Tim is going to have fun playing Ra's like a fool #A lot more league bases gonna go boom now #does he play into being having Pit Madness? #or will be a calm before the storm kinda person #either way Ra's believes he can manipulate and mold Tim into his heir #when Danny/Tim stops Ra's from taking over WE he legit pieces out of Gotham for a bit #gotta go build a very strange machine and see a Time Master to get B home

[lazylittledragon]

obsessed with people saying “it’s cool to be weird now” fucking WHERE and how do i get there

#ramble #have you seen an instagram comment section #nobody is meaner #oh you mean the kind of weird that is still attractive and marketable and not the kind that got me bullied my entire childhood #you can look weird and have weird interests as long as you aren’t too loud or enthusiastic or strange for my taste #it is cool to be different but also no the fuck it isn’t #i am still just as ostracised in adult life as i was at school #‘they’ll be jealous of you one day’ i assure you they are Not

[gently-decaying-flowers]

conducting an experiment…….

#char rambles #my polls #okay bc like i know a strange amount of people who were homeschooled #and it doesn’t feel as common irl as it does on here #so i’m curious

[markscherz]

I… do not understand tumblr live. Like, are there actually only about 50 people streaming across the whole platform at any one time? And why are so many of them just… people smoking? Or unoccupied desks? And why is nobody talking about frogs?

#live #tumblr live #it occurs to me that the reason there are so few streamers is that I am in the wrong timezone #but honestly even off-peak 50 streamers is embarrassing numbers #look I might do an AMA sometime #but there is a very low chance that it will be on tumblr live #so far most livestreaming I've done has been on facebook and/or instagram #but those platforms both really suck for it #so I am not sure which platform I will use #suggestions are welcome #I have also dabbled with youtube #and once tried twitch #might try tiktok sometime #but it's not great on all these platforms without existing follower counts #these are the ramblings of a tumblr old #his continuing mission: #to teach you about strange and wonderful animals #to seek out new frog lovers and teach them fun facts #to try to understand why tumblr is worse than before

[centaurianthropology]

One thing that I think a lot of Disco Elysium meta misses (likely because a lot of it is very clearly written by young Americans writing from an intensely American-centric cultural perspective without even really realizing it) is that one of the singular and central themes of the game is massive-scale generational trauma in a home that is economically collapsing as its resources and people are being drained by an occupation.  People have noted that no one tries to help Harry, despite the fact his mental illness is incredibly obvious to everyone around him.  He tells Kim that he completely lost his memory, and Kim politely asks him to focus on the work.  He tells Gottlieb that he had a heart attack, and Gottlieb tells him that if he’s still alive it couldn’t have been that bad.  That he’ll drop dead sooner or later, but then so does everyone.

And that’s the most important thing: so does everyone.  Look at Martinaise.  Look at the world in which Harry lives.  It is not our own, but it is adjacent to ours.  More specifically, it is clearly adjacent to the states of the Eastern Bloc: overtaken and occupied by a faraway government that clearly doesn’t care about Revachol or its people.  And that is obvious in every tired face, every defeated citizen, everyone trying to eke out a little happiness or meaning in spite of the overwhelming trauma and damage around them.  The buildings are still half-destroyed.  The bullet holes are still in the walls.  The revolution was decades before, but it still feels to the people there like a fresh wound.  The number of men of Harry’s generation who are not alcoholic or otherwise deeply fucked up are very few.  Some, like Kim, hide it better, but the deeper you dig into his history, the more you realize how damaged Kim is.  He’s more than a little trigger happy, and hates that about himself, but he is a product of his environment: Kim’s entire life is seeing people he cared about shot and killed, so his instinct now is to shoot first himself, to protect those few people left who still matter to him.

Harry is not unique in his trauma.  He is a distillation of an entire culture of people who tried to rise up and make something beautiful, and were instead routed and occupied.  He is trapped between the occupation and the people on the ground, along with all the rest of the RCM.  Their authority comes from the occupying government, but it is implied that they were formed out of the remnants of the citizens militia which sprung up from Revachol itself as a way to try to mitigate some of the horrors being committed on its streets.  The Moralintern sure as hell wasn’t going to get their hands dirty, so they happily conscripted (and therefore could better control) this group, who are only recognized in certain places, and whose authority mostly amounts to giving out fines.  The RCM is corrupt, but it is corrupt in the same way its culture is.  Bribes are considered standard with them, not a moral failing, but a necessity, so long as those bribes are correctly logged as ‘donations’.  It’s how the RCM stays afloat, and the rest of Revachol completely understands that.  Everyone would take a bribe if it meant they kept eating.  Everyone would take a little under-the-table money if it meant keeping a roof over their heads.  The officersof the RCM certainly don’t make enough to see a doctor.  They have an in-house lazarus, and if he can’t fix them they just die.  Mental health care?  What mental health care?  Harry doesn’t get it for the same reason no one else does: it doesn’t really seem to exist.  There are no counselors, no psychologists, no psychiatrists.  How would they even start?  If the world is what is broken, if everyone is suffering a similar catastrophic amount, it makes sense that Harry’s trauma would simply get rolled up with all the rest.  Kim asks him to get on with the job because Harry’s suffering is not remarkable in Revachol.  He is one of an entire generation who have an astronomical number of orphans from the revolution, and so many younger people are left more or less orphans as their parents drink themselves into oblivion like Cuno’s father.  So Harry’s truly unique attribute is embodying all that trauma, having it all inside of him, filling him to bursting.

To really engage with the themes of the game, engaging first and foremost with the reality of Revachol is imperative.  Imposing our own reality onto Revachol, particularly if coming from an American perspective (which tend to have the habit of both viewing the world through an American lens and not realizing they’re doing it because they’ve never experienced a different lens), will always feel shallow to me because of this.

All that is to say, I would love to hear some more explicitly European meta about this game, and especially Eastern European meta.  If anyone can point me to some good, juicy essays from that perspective, I would be grateful!

#Disco Elysium #is such a good game #but I found a lot of the meta around it frustratingly shallow #and very VERY American #which is also frustrating #given how clearly Eastern European the roots of this game are #I have no problem with people using a game or other work of fiction to inform their own lives and experiences #but I find it strange when people engage with the game #as though it was coming from an American perspective #asking why certain things happen or didn't #based on how they would play out or have played out in America #anyway this a rambly way to request some meta from other cultural perspectives #I am very interested in reading it! #Disco Elysium meta

[strangesickness]

maggie tozier to me is like the losers favorite adult ever. like all of them love her, i know it in my heart. like she picks a bunch of them up from school and everyones excited to see her and they fight over who gets to sit in the front with her and she asks them all about their days and usually a lot of them when their parents ask that they just go "fine" but all of them end up sharing random details from their days. all of them have fond memories of her helping them with cuts, or homework, or driving them out of derry for day trips, and she's like. the coolest adult they know because she lets richie swear and she is halfway decent at mario. they just think she's the coolest adult in the whole world. i think once richie is like 15ish he moves past the "my parents are so embarrassing" phase and he is her number one hype man. "guys my mom made this awesome dinner you have to come try some" "guys mags said she would drive us up to canada to celebrate when all of us are 18" "i bet my mom could beat you at mortal kombat" (another reason why the losers thinks she's really cool is because she lets them all, including her son, call her maggie). eddie wants to make fun of richie so bad for being such a momma's boy because of how relentless he was about eddie's own relationship with sonia when they were younger, but he can't bring himself to do it because like. they all love maggie so much, of course richie loves her.

#they all love went too but this isn't about him #posts afflicted with a strange sickness #richie tozier #maggie tozier #it stephen king #strange ramblings

[strangelystillhere]

so SO excited !!! my prints from @sermna came in and they’re so beautiful T-T and I was taken completely off guard by Reflection being paper

anyways go follow sermna she’s amazing and makes the coolest queer horror art

#strange ramblings #art #sermna

[singing-not-sleeping-beauty]

Anybody else think that the "superhero fatigue" people keep talking about has less to do with people not liking superheroes as a genre, and more to do with many superhero movies made in the past few years being bad faith adaptations?

I'm not tired of comic books or action movies, or the inherent optimism of a world that, despite its many flaws, deserves saving

I'm tired of movies that are mass produced with no respect to the source material, audience, or the people making it!

#via rambles #marvel #dc #dc comics #mcu #dceu #dc universe #superman #batman #the justice league #jsa #blue beetle #captain america #shazam #iron man #the avengers #dr strange #spider man #hulk #secret invasion #young justice #young avengers #ms marvel #captain marvel

[strangefingers]

💔 Is there a fic of yours that broke your heart?

🤡 What's a line, scene, or exchange you've written that made you laugh?

😈 Has there been a point in a story where you did something just to be playfully mean to your readers?

💔 Is there a fic of yours that broke your heart?

I don't think I could ever truly break my own heart with a fic; I control the outcome, so the story doesn't have any leverage to hurt me unexpectedly. However, I do feel dismal about the consequences of name of the ruiner (warning for noncon), since within the context of that story I've created a future where Jack and Gabriel both die miserably, unreconciled.

🤡 What's a line, scene, or exchange you've written that made you laugh?

Imagining the delivery of this exchange from the Venom fic did make me laugh to myself.

“I don’t want your excuses, Eddie. I want your penis.” “Oh-kay,” he says, his voice rising a little. “Well. H…ere it is.”

😈 Has there been a point in a story where you did something just to be playfully mean to your readers?

I think the entire premise of things you say when no one's listening is a bit playfully mean! I wanted people to have some doubts about what was going on but to also get kind of swept up in Jack's anxiety.

Thank you very much for the questions!

#strange ramblings #writing memes #clare-guilty

[theminecraftbee]

yeah, i'm actually really fascinated by the setup going into the last episode here.

like. okay. so the thing is: despite the tasks and the secrecy and the chaos, secret life has actually been a season of INCREDIBLY STABLE ALLIANCES. i don't think alliances have been this stable since third life. people keep on re-affirming their loyalty to one another, sacrificing themselves for one another, dying for one another.

the difference between this and third life, though, is that there aren't blood feuds driving this whole thing. sure, there are some grudges (the cleo/pearl enemyship from this season instantly exploding, for example) and some loners (poor scar) but. NOTHING like the level the end of a life series season normally gets to. everyone is mostly... friendly? and they're going to protect their own alliance first, but...

the thing is, no one has an incentive outside of the tasks to kill, it feels like. despite several tasks seemingly being DESIGNED to form grudges, that lack of grudge, killing energy is felt ALL THROUGHOUT this session. the reds only went after yellows, after all, and even that felt... almost half-hearted and cartoonish, compared to how it normally gets when there are only a few yellows left and a critical mass of reds. and without yellows to target here, what drive do the red names have to start killing?

they don't have any reason to betray each other, and they also don't have any reason to lead their allies into danger, right now. we're in a calm before the storm, sure, but i have no idea what can even START the storm.

something has to blow this up next. something has to make this fall apart. but for the season about secrets, this has been a season of people who largely stick together, and i don't know if anything can change that at this point. not when everyone is settling back into their alliances after the zombie thing last session.

i suspect we're going to have a different kind of ending: an ending of people who don't want to be doing it. who are tired. who don't want to be killing. all they want is to protect their alliances. they're on an even playing field now, after all.

the only difference from the start of the game, now, is that they have people to lose, and three already missing. three holes in the cast list to remind us that this is still a death game, even after two deathless sessions later.

i don't know where this is going. i don't know what this is setting up. but it's... strange, and i'm fascinated.

#secret life smp #secret life spoilers #the thing is that almost all the tension in ths erver feels weirdly... defused? #which is a STRANGE STATE TO BE IN WHEN THE ENTIRE SERVER IS RED #so forgive my rambling i just. don't know where this could be going.